I know them. They do. Because this is going to hasten The Revolution. As you know, everything bad that has happened in America has moved us closer to the establishment of a Glorious People's Commissariat. Just ask Susan Sarandon.

It doesn't appear that there is any benefit to Trump's business interests. This is of benefit to his desire to put Obama in his place.

The coal industry is in decline anyway, and is not nearly as labor intensive as it was, say, fifty years ago. So we'll have to find other ways to slowly kill ourselves feeling like productive members of society.

All kidding aside, there are still serious structural impediments to the global diffusion of Chinese culture. Most of the old colonial empires had a sizable number of native speakers in their colonies. China never had a colonial empire, so the established presence of Mandarin is limited to begin with, and as the…

I'll repeat. This isn't business. This is personal.

This is not about business. This is about being a man.

You're not that far off. Despite what Trump said, coal is prohibitively expensive IRL, and despite the end of subsidies, renewable energy is becoming cheaper because the technology is becoming more efficient.

(Clicks on article, ctrl+f "Gwyneth")

I'm told that not only is that still a phenomenon, but it's newer than one might think. 20 years ago, any westerner in a major city other than Shanghai and Beijing would get stares (HK doesn't count, since it's still not technically part of China). So they've gone from Stage 0 of culture shock to Stage 1.

He wanted to remake Flash Gordon, couldn't get the rights, wrote a series of insane, unworkably convoluted stream-of-consciousness drafts, got pared down to a decent script by his contemporaries which was touched up during production, and threw in a bunch of easily recognizable influences. The movie is a huge success,…

It's just like how Sean Connery's career ended.

Brad Bird is getting too preachy of late. His Episode VII would probably have been a mix of individualist commentary and overblown pushback against prevailing hero archetypes.

Lucas even vowed to give up directing after Star Wars, claiming he wasn't up to the challenge.

This seems to be a criticism of the film specifically. This is not the first review I've heard to complain that the portrayal of the Germans was anachronistically malicious– or played to over-the-top Allied propaganda of the time (nailing babies and kittens to church doors in Belgium, for example) that led people to…

No airbrushed body hair this time.

I wish The Hateful Eight had convinced studios to put in an intermission. But it makes sense that, seeing how much air travel has become an act of humiliation and discomfort since the release of Spartacus, movies would do the same.

And yet the very existence of "cinematic universes" like this is an obvious result of film trying to be more like television.

I thought that was Jai-Alai. Or American Soccer.

The "and nothing of consequence happened" -ness is irritating.

Nah, I got a vet like this.